1867 – “Harpers Bazaar” magazine was founded.
1883 – Thomas Edison executed a patent application for an electrical indicator using the Edison effect lamp (U.S. Pat. 307,031).
1903 – British newspaper “Daily Mirror” begins publishing
1921 – Margaret Sander’s National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League.
1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened
1960 – Penguin Books publishes “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
1977 – Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens
1986 – The 12-by-16-inch celluloid of a poison apple from Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”” was purchased for $30,800.
2001 – The computer-animated movie “Monsters, Inc.” opened.
By: Archa Dave
